614 ADDENDA AND COEEieENDA. 



blackish brown, occiput and sides of head yellowish white ; lower 

 parts uniform white. 



Total length 310 millim. ; tail 70. 



Madagascar. 



a. Hgr. (V. 183 ; C. 64). S.W. Madagascar. Mr. Last [C.]. 



^^^ . Page 317. Lycognathophis sechellensis. 



Lycognathophis seyohellensis, Stejneger, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. lyi. 

 1894, p. 726. 



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 38 a. MICEOPISTHODON. 



Micropisthodon, Mocquard, CR. Soc. Philom. 1894, no. 17, p. 7. 



Maxillary teeth 12 ; posterior maxillary and mandibular teeth 

 shortest. Head not distinct from neck ; eye rather large, with 

 round pupil ; nasal entire. Body slender, slightly compressed ; 

 scales narrow, smooth, oblique, with apical pits, in 17 rows ; ventrals 

 rounded. Tail long; subcaudals in two rows. 



Madagascar. 



1. IVEicropisthodoii ochracens. 



Micropisthodon ochraceus, Moeq. I. c. p. 8. 



Eostral large, twice as broad as deep ; internasals a little shorter 

 than the praefrontals ; frontal as long as its distance from the end 

 of the snout ; supraoculars longer than the frontal, nearly as long 

 as the parietals ; loreal longer than deep ; one or two prse- and 

 two or three postoculars ; temporals 2 + 2 ; eight upper labials, 

 fourth and fifth entering the eye ; four lower labials in contact with 

 the chin-shields, which are short. Scales in 17 rows, very finely 

 striated. Ventrals 145 ; anal divided ; subcaudals 133. Light 

 ochraceous brown above, with fine darker dots and small spots ; two 

 black lines on the neck, converging behind. 



Total length 687 millim. ; tail 260. 



Nossi Be. 



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2 a. Gouionotophis klingii. 

 Gonionotophis klingi, MatscUe, Sitzb. Ges. Naturf. Fr. 1893, p. 172, 



Eostral hardly visible from above ; internasals much broader than 

 long ; praefrontals a little longer than broad ; frontal as long as its 

 distance from the rostral, shorter than the parietals ; loreal more 

 than twice as long as broad ; one prse- and two postoculars ; tem- 

 porals 2-1-2; seven upper labials, fourth and fifth entering the eye; 

 five lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which 



